Happy Thanksgiving to All!

by Big Rob

Posted: 10 years ago 22 replies

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You know, I am so grateful I found this Lounge and the Interesting, Intelligent,Weird,wacky and astoundingly funny people.

Many Thanks and much love to:

ThomM ,HeySal,KimW, DennisGaskill,MissTerraK, DanRiffle, JoeMobley, KayKing, ClaudeWhitacre, Whateverpedia,Patrician,Seasonsed,Tagiscom,Thunder bird,LaurenceWins,Taskeman,
Hardraysnight,Joseph7384,Sbucciarel,LCombs,PaulMye rs,Khemosabi,HornyDevil,
TLtheLiberator,FrankDonovan,BizGrower,TravlinGuy,D onSchenk ,craigslist,jacktackett,
KenLeatherman,AprilCT,JasonKanigan,SShip,KingofCon tentMarketing,MikeTucker,LarryC,
KenMichaels, KenCaudill, DanielEvans, GaryV,RichardVan, Yukon,Alexa Smith,waterotter, And a ton of others whose names escape me right now...

Enjoy the day!

Richard Van

10 years ago

Yes I just wished everyone a good one in the turkey thread.

I'm off home shortly to have a few jars, I hate feeling left out when everyones celebrating thanksgiving over the pond and I'm not.

...And threads wishing everyone a thanksgiving but forgetting.....me....EDIT - I stand corrected, I stand corrected!!! I just spotted myself

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I'm kidding, Riffle compared me to a grotesque wirdo called Lenny earlier and Mr Gaskill wants me to be the forum Caveman so I'm just putting today down to experience.

Happy Thanksgiving to you Rob and that's from a Londoner, to a enormous greek fellow (You are Greek aren't you or am I having a long day?

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Big Rob

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

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I'm kidding, Riffle compared me to a grotesque wirdo called Lenny earlier and Mr Gaskill wants me to be the forum Caveman so I'm just putting today down to experience.

Happy Thanksgiving to you Rob and that's from a Londoner, to a enormous greek fellow (You are Greek aren't you or am I having a long day?

)

You are thinking of Big Mike,

, No worries, Have a great day,Mate!

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Richard Van 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Big Rob

You are thinking of Big Mike, , No worries, Have a great day,Mate!

Bugger! I was frantically searching the forum. Big Mike, that's it.

I do apologise. In that case a very Happy Thanksgiving to you from me.
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SShip 10 years ago

Thank you Big Bob!

Have a Very Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
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sbucciarel Banned 10 years ago

... and a happy Thanksgiving to you too!
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yukon Banned 10 years ago

I couldn't Thank you because I didn't make the list. Maybe next year (fingers crossed)?
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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Big Rob

You know, I am so grateful I found this Lounge and the Interesting, Intelligent,Weird,wacky and astoundingly funny people.

Many Thanks and much love to:

ThomM ,HeySal, DennisGaskill,MissTerraK, DanRiffle, JoeMobley, KayKing, ClaudeWhitacre, Whateverpedia,Patrician,Seasonsed,Tagiscom,Thunder bird,LaurenceWins,Taskeman,
Hardraysnight,Joseph7384,Sbucciarel,LCombs,PaulMye rs,Khemosabi,HornyDevil,
TLtheLiberator,FrankDonovan,BizGrower,TravlinGuy,D onSchenk ,craigslist,jacktackett,
KenLeatherman,AprilCT,JasonKanigan,SShip,KingofCon tentMarketing,MikeTucker,LarryC,
KenMichaels,RichardVan, And a ton of others whose names escape me right now...

Enjoy the day!

You only mentioned my name once...ONCE!

And you mentioned Dan Riffle...before me...ME!

I'll get my revenge on Christmas, but who knows when that's going to be?

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Big Rob

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

I couldn't Thank you because I didn't make the list. Maybe next year (fingers crossed)?

Dang it,Yukon....
I did include you last year, forgive me, you havent been in the lounge much lately,
And I am putting extra bourbon in my coffee today

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Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

You only mentioned my name once...ONCE!

And you mentioned Dan Riffle...before me...ME!

I'll get my revenge on Christmas, but who knows when that's going to be?

Look at it this way,Wooster... You made it in before Kanigan for a change:p
(Sheesh,Guy gets a whole thread dedicated to him and turns into a primadonna!)

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TLTheLiberator 10 years ago
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alistair

10 years ago

This may be a stupid question and I've asked many before but what exactly is thanksgiving?

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Big Rob

10 years ago

Originally Posted by alistair

This may be a stupid question and I've asked many before but what exactly is thanksgiving?

From Wiki, and no such thing...

Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l'Action de grâce in Canadian French) is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.

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Claude Whitacre 10 years ago

Originally Posted by alistair

This may be a stupid question and I've asked many before but what exactly is thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving is a day that you invite people over to your home...that you really really don't want in your home. Everyone brings something to eat. Even the aunts that can't cook, and don't know it.

And everyone spends at least 15 minutes walking around the food asking "Who made this?", and avoiding anything aunt Ruth, or aunt Marge made.

As you all sit at the table waiting to "Give Thanks", you hope they don't ask you to do it, because you're an atheist. But you can't tell anyone that...because someone will cry

Someone sneezes on the turkey, and you have to pretend that you don't want to hit the moron with a shovel. Your stomach grumbles at the thought of listening to your "political genius" relatives. Including the vegetarian sister in law that thinks "Money is evil" and that we should share the meal with others...and I want to remind her that I'm sharing it with her.

Then, after eating a meal that could explode a balloon, you sit with other men in the family (meaning your wife's family) and watch a sporting event that you would never watch on your own. And listen to grown men yell, cheer, and spill their drinks on your new carpet.

Then kids, who are probably nieces and nephews (nobody knows for sure)...find your computer and run upstairs saying "Mommy, what does 'Bondage' mean?".

And then you have to explain how, once you buy Viagra online, you get on lists...bad lists.....and you have no idea how those pictures got on your computer.

Your wife's nephew has another "opportunity" he wants you to fund...and you can't hide. And you can't just tell him (and his new wife that "believes" in him) to stop bothering you. So you tell him you'll think about it...which to you, means, "Not a chance"... but to them means, "I'll get the checkbook".

I look around the room, and realize that nobody in the room has bought anything at our store...ever. And they are all local.

And then...you realize that all of this was in your head, and that's why you drove to your retail store to play on the computer until the absolutely last minute...when you have to show up at home.

Of course, the driveway is all blocked....and I'll probably slip on the ice, and my nephew will steal my wallet off my freezing unconscious body. Wait...that's just in my head too.

That's Thanksgiving :rolleyes:
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seasoned

10 years ago

Alistair,

Considering where you are from, it isn't such a dumb question. I felt like an idiot when I went to BOSTON one time and heard about two holidays THEY considered important. It turned out they were unique to BOSTON, and one was unique to only a certain region!

Anyway, thanksgiving IS looked at as a big reason why the US is here, being the first time, as far as many are concerned, that settlers from europe arrived. And it is the first time english settlers arrived. The US was created here much later. HERE is a story about THAT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)

Arrival in America[edit]

Landing of the Pilgrims by Michele Felice Cornè, circa 1805. Displayed in the White House

1620 place names mentioned by Bradford
Land was sighted on November 9, 1620. The passengers who had endured miserable conditions for about sixty-five days were led by William Brewster in Psalm 100 as a prayer of thanksgiving. It was confirmed that the area was Cape Cod, within the New England territory recommended by Weston. An attempt was made to sail the ship around the cape towards the Hudson River, also within the New England grant area, but they encountered shoals and difficult currents around Cape Malabar (the old French name for present-day Monomoy). It was decided to turn around, and by November 11/November 21 the ship was anchored in what is today known as Provincetown Harbor.[32][34]

And here is what created thanksgiving as a holiday, and tied it to the pilgrims: Thanksgiving Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln

Around the last thursday of November, the pilgrims would have been living by themselves for about a week.

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Patrician 10 years ago

Happy Thanksgiving Warriors!
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- Jason Ladlee 10 years ago
  
  Happy Thanksgiving warriors.
  
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HeySal 10 years ago

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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- ThomM 10 years ago
  
  Thanks Lowell, oops I mean Rob. Sorry I'm listening to Rock and Roll Doctor at the monent
  Happy Thanksgiving to you and the rest of the O.T.. And to those outside the U.S. and Canada, Happy Thursday or whatever day it happens to be now where you are.
  
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  Horny Devil Banned 10 years ago
  
  So good I had to post it here, in addition to another thread.
  
  Happy Thanksgiving you turkeys.
  
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  Claude Whitacre 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Horny Devil
  
  So good I had to post it here, in addition to another thread.
  
  Happy Thanksgiving turkeys.
  
  What I think is inspirational, is that the turkey is missing a leg and still has the energy to cook a ..turkey.....leg...
  AAAAAAAA! AAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!
  Waaaa waaaa wwaaaa AHHHHH!
  (Me screaming bloody murder)
  
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Dan Riffle 10 years ago

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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- MissTerraK 10 years ago
  
  Thank you Rob!
  
  A a big Happy Thanksgiving to you!
  
  Here's something for your viewing pleasure. I made it a bit back, but it is fitting for today.
  
  The Pilgrim Song.
  
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Big Rob 10 years ago

That was AWESOME,Miss T!!!!

Thanks for the laughs
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Happy Thanksgiving to All!

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